Reviews and Problems with Garmin eTrex Vista HCx

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Overall 2

Super Last long battery life Handheld GPS.

shiori357m, Ebay

3 November 2010

Summary: My main purpose of purchase in this Hand held GPS is back country trekking use. So, I choose Topo U.S 100K map(DVD-Rom) bundle version. (regular unit will not come with it) also get 1GB micro SD card for expandable memory.

Freezing problem well known

D. Flori "ATK Fan", Amazon

18 June 2008

Summary: I bought this unit as a Christmas 2007 present for my husband. He is trying to use it during his hikes in the Taos mountains. Unit freezes up every 15 minutes or less. Information lost. Updating the software had no effect on the problem.

eTrex trash

Scot A. Shier "SAS", Amazon

7 March 2008

Summary: eTrex has been a disappointment. I own 2 Garmin Nuvi 350s and love them. I ordered eTrex Vista HCx for my mountain bike. It would not allow me to unlock the "City Select North America v7" map (that comes with Nuvi). Their tech support told me to return the unit (at my cost!

Does not meet expectations

Martin Cornes "Geocache Newbie", Amazon

19 January 2008

Summary: I was very dissapointed. After reading other reviews and the specs Ii was expecting an accurate GPS device. I found it to be off by 150-250 ft at a minimum. When I was out an about in the mountains, and was close to a waypoint in a canyon, it shifted direction constantly.

Functionally good, but faulty

Martin Farrimond "MartinF", Amazon

21 March 2008

Summary: I had 2 of these from new, returning the first for the second. Both of them exhibited the same fault - namely they hang / freeze during use. They hang at random points, any time from switch-on to several hours later, so very unpredicatble and very unreliable.